Share Your Current Top Two Go-To Quotes That Inform Your Choices

Old Navy BGO said:
From another post I made -

"It takes a whole lot of "attaboys" to make up for one "aw ****" --not sure where I heard it first, but probably from one of my skippers.

Or course, there is the five basic responses learned first day in the Navy , "Yes sir, No Sir, Aye Aye Sir, I'll find out Sir, and No Excuse Sir." (Of course, substitute Maa'm when appropriate, getting that wrong can be fatal). You can usually get through anything by selecting and using the correct response from among those. (And then there is the saltier, 6th basic response I learned in my squadron "I f##ked up Sir"- If ever in the midst of a good butt chewing, using that response immediately disarms the chewer as all they can do at that point is agree with you !)
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No truer words were ever spoken!
 
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Faith the size of a Mustard Seed: "For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you." — Matthew 17:20-21

“A truth that's told with bad intent. Beats all the lies you can invent.” ― William Blake
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Dr. Strange Love said:
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Faith the size of a Mustard Seed: "For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you." — Matthew 17:20-21

“A truth that's told with bad intent. Beats all the lies you can invent.” ― William Blake
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I really like the bible references to mustard seeds and vines that need growth and pruning. Those are parables I can understand (apart from most of the others).
 
"Hope for the best, but plan for the worst." I really buy into being cautiously optimistic.

Paraphrasing with this one: Red flags just look like flags when you are looking through rose-colored glasses. In other words, don't let self-interest cloud rational judgement.
 
Usnavy2019 said:
"Hope for the best, but plan for the worst." I really buy into being cautiously optimistic.

Paraphrasing with this one: Red flags just look like flags when you are looking through rose-colored glasses. In other words, don't let self-interest cloud rational judgement.
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Let it develop … Let it play out … Steady hand … Slow and easy

It’s the worry-less, anti-anxiety, anti-FOMO way to live.

Let things come to you … they always do

The price is always what you paid for it …
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Lost time is never found again - Benjamin Franklin

I wasted time and now time doth waste me - Richard II (..just realized that Rick's own name contains a time reference)
 
I am going to add one that I often use in coaching midshipmen on how to coach themselves out of slumps. It’s an excerpt from a letter written by Ralph Waldo Emerson to his daughter.

You must finish a term & finish every day, & be done with it. For manners, & for wise living, it is a vice to remember. You have done what you could — some blunders & absurdities no doubt crept in forget them as fast as you can tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day for all that is good & fair. It is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.
 
Capt MJ said:
I am going to add one that I often use in coaching midshipmen on how to coach themselves out of slumps. It’s an excerpt from a letter written by Ralph Waldo Emerson to his daughter.

You must finish a term & finish every day, & be done with it. For manners, & for wise living, it is a vice to remember. You have done what you could — some blunders & absurdities no doubt crept in forget them as fast as you can tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day for all that is good & fair. It is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.
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Think in the morning.
Act in the noon.
Eat in the evening.
Sleep in the night.
— William Blake
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My advise whenever my kids had a major event- game, tryout, recital, Plebe summer, going to the Training Center, going off to war…
“Don’t suck.”
Drill Sergeant Lych’s final advise to me before I qualified on the M16.
 
The brick walls aren’t there to keep us out, the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. - Randy Pausch
 
To him whom much has been given, much is expected.
 
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.



Abraham Lincoln
 
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